A recent terrifying video from Mariupol, it was filmed by Ruzzians (Kadyrovites)
This Chechen occupier tells that they were bombed by their own (russian) forces and miraculously survived. He seems to be very amused by this situation.
But on the background you can hear a woman crying and screaming “Natasha! Natasha!”, then a gunshot, silence and “oh God” in the end. We can only guess what was happening to Natasha and the other woman…
Testimonial of a Bucha survivor - my translation below. Apologies for bad English.
He was given 20 minutes to collect the body parts of his friend and bury them.
This is Mykola. He is 53. He lives in Bucha. Mykola stutters a lot. Only after lighting a cigarette does he begin his story.
Mykola has been staying in the basement for 34 days. He could have left the city, but being the apartment complex manager of a five-story building, he couldn’t leave other people. On the first day of the fighting in Bucha, a shell flew into the window of his flat, pierced the wall, and got stuck into a child’s bed, setting it on fire. Thankfully, his family had already evacuated by then. After extinguishing the fire, he gathered all the elderly and the women and moved to the basement.
When russians occupied the town, they were breaking into every house. All the men were led outside and stripped naked - they were looking for tattoos (“nazi” tattoos - they believe that all Azov soldiers are marked with them and are hiding among civilians). Two of Mykola’s friends, Leonid and Sergiy, were under 50 years old, and one more man, also called Leonid, was much younger. When russian soldiers saw his birth date on his passport, they said he is eligible for joining the army and executed him.
Mykola buried Leonid right there, in the yard, near the transformer box. A bloodstain remains on the place where he was killed.
A few days later, Sergiy also was killed. He stepped outside the basement to smoke a cigarette and was shot on spot. Just like that, without any words or warnings.
When the fight got intense, the russians went mad. Before that, people could leave the basements to cook some food outside or just get a breath of fresh air. At this point, the people decided to lock themselves inside. When evening came, russians started shooting everywhere. They yelled and demanded the people let them in the basement. Most likely, they planned on executing everyone before leaving the city. We know that to be true because this happened to a different house on a neighboring street.
When russians didn’t manage to break the door, they threw a grenade on the stairway. On the other side of it, Leonid - the only man beside Mykola who stayed alive - was holding the door. The people inside heard the explosion, and then silence. For a full day, his dead body was lying there, on the blood-stained stairway. On the next day, russians knocked on the door and said that (the people) had 20 minutes to bury the man. When Mykola stepped outside, he saw the head and legs of his friend, torn apart from his body.
Mykola gathered the remains and dug another grave - the third one. Due to his old age and limited time, he didn’t manage to dig it deep enough. Now he worries that once it starts raining, it will wash off the sand and the stray dogs will come to eat the remains.
Among all this horror, pain, and death it is easy to lose hope. But today Mykola is my hero. He saw the worst that humankind has to offer but didn’t lose his own humanity. During the interview, he was holding back his tears. After we turned off the camera, he started crying and thanked us for listening to him.
If you are russian and you want to send me another hateful message, or you sympathize with russians and my posts offend you, consider this: most of them were written during air raids, at the same time that russian cruise missiles are flying over my country. Right now I can hear a siren and I almost don’t notice this sound anymore. These missiles can pass me by and kill other Ukrainians in different regions, other cities. Or they can be shot down by our air defense forces. But one fact is clear: they are launched by the Russians to kill Ukrainians. Russia wants us dead and our cities either destroyed or belonging to russia.
They demolish Ukrainian monuments, pluck Ukrainian flags and hang Russian and Soviet flags instead, put statues of Lenin on the squares.
They torture thousands of Ukrainians in the torture chambers. They deport Ukrainian children to Russia. And Ukrainian children in the occupied territories are taught the “only right” Russian language instead of Ukrainian.
While russia is desperately trying to implement the “final solution to the Ukrainian problem”, while russia is erasing everything Ukrainian from Ukrainian land, while russia is killing innocent people whose only fault is their nationality. While russian missiles fly over my house, I have the right to at least speak up about it. Ukrainians should not and will not be silent.
“Special for May 8. Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation. Our Mariupol’s mini-project "I am a Russian. I’m a Killer. ” Part one - I’m a Russian tankman.“
At first I wanted to attach photos of the destructions to this text, but it’s just piles of stones, walls that can be rebuilt. So many lives cannot be revived. Look into their faces - they, like thousands of others, were killed by russia.
Some were buried alive under the rubble that used to be their homes, and their relatives or neighbors are unable to dismantle the blockages with their bare hands and retrieve the bodies.
Like this woman who is buried under the rubble of her house. The note says: “Here lies Zolotareva Valentina.”
This is the 21st century, a peaceful country and innocent people.
Please don’t forget what russia is doing to my country, even if it doesn’t change anything and nothing matters…
Tonight russian missile hit a residential building. At least 18 people are dead.
On Monday russian missile hit a shopping mall with at least 1000 citizens inside. Our DSNS are still finding victims. Not even whole bodies. By pieces. People burned alive.
Thats the biggest ones. Generally there were 9 strikes in the past 7 days.
